An Expostulation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDEEFFGH IIJJKKLLMM| Against too many writers of science fiction | A |
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| Why did you lure us on like this | B |
| Light year on light year through the abyss | B |
| Building as though we cared for size | C |
| Empires that cover galaxies | D |
| If at the journey's end we find | E |
| The same old stuff we left behind | E |
| Well worn Tellurian stories of | F |
| Crooks spies conspirators or love | F |
| Whose setting might as well have been | G |
| The Bronx Montmartre or Bedinal Green | H |
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| Why should I leave this green floored cell | I |
| Roofed with blue air in which we dwell | I |
| Unless outside its guarded gates | J |
| Long long desired the Unearthly waits | J |
| Strangeness that moves us more than fear | K |
| Beauty that stabs with tingling spear | K |
| Or Wonder laying on one's heart | L |
| That finger tip at which we start | L |
| As if some thought too swift and shy | M |
| For reason's grasp had just gone by | M |
Clive Staples Lewis
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